Course Information:

This is an upper level course and because it is likely to be rather small, I will treat it somewhat like a seminar. First and foremost this means that students must attend classes regularly and arrive on time (more than five absences will severely affect your grade) and they must come prepared to discuss the assigned reading material. In addition students are expected to treat one another and the professor with every respect.

Note: Written assignments are due in class. Extensions are rarely granted. Late work will be penalized 1/3 of one grade per day (e.g. from B to B-). After 10 days the student will receive a zero for the assignment.

Reading Materials

Four books and one case study are required for this course. Additional Readings may be accessed from the schedule page or as PDF files on Blackboard. The required materials are:

Karen Mingst and Margaret Karns, The United Nations in the 21st Century. 3d ed., Westview, 2007

Connor Foley: The Thin Blue Line. Verso, 2010

Ngaire Woods, The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers. Cornell Studies in Money, 2006

John Pinder and Simon Usherwood, The European Union: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, 2007